2017 Yearbook - Universidad ORT Uruguay

131 CONFERENCES AND ACADEMIC VISITS 2017 School of Engineering Prof. Alejandro Bianchi (Argentina) President of the software engineering company Liveware. He taught the course “Fundamentals of Big Data Analytical Methods” as part of the Specialization Diploma in Big Data Analytics, from March to June and from August to November. Dr. Matthieu Jonckheere (Argentina) Adjunct professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Buenos Aires. He served as an external examiner for the final thesis defense panels in the Telecommunications Engineering program on April 19. Dr. Víctor Braberman (Argentina) Adjunct Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, University of Buenos Aires (UBA). Dr. Diego Garbervetsky (Argentina) Adjunct Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, UBA. Dr. Luis Olsina (Argentina) Full associate professor of Information Systems at the School of Engineering, National University of La Pampa. Dr. Jean Hauck (Brazil) Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Southern Santa Catarina. Dr. Sergio Lifschitz (Brazil) Associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. They served as external reviewers for the final projects in Systems Engineering and the Bachelor’s Degree in Systems from April 20 to May 5. Dr. Jorge Trelles (Argentina) Director of the Diploma and Technical Program in Science and Technology at the National University of Quilmes. He served as a thesis examiner for the Biotechnology Engineering thesis titled “Biotransformations for the Revaluation of Glycerol,” by Magdalena Ripoll and Rocío Bravo, and participated in the thesis defense committee, May 4.